Meanwhile, Unix System Labs showed considerable deference for the Open Software Foundation’s sensibilities by not announcing – for what seemed an eternity – its deal to market Boulder, Colorado-based Netwise Inc’s technology. Last week, at the same time as its announcement of early shipments of the Software Foundation-derived DCE/System V.4, it finally went public. The Foundation’s Distributed Computing Environment embodies the Remote Procedure Call technology from Hewlett-Packard, which competes with that from Netwise. Unix Labs, which has shipped Distributed Computing Environment-competitive Open Network Computing technology as part of Unix since 1989, says its future Open Network Computing releases will include the Netwise Run Time Library at no additional charge. Unix Labs will also market the Netwise Open Network Computing RPC Tool. Netwise says that it will provide future migration support to Distributed Computing Environment as well as a new product, scheduled for announcement next quarter, to provide interoperability between Open Network Computing and Distributed Computing Environment applications. Unix Labs will market the Netwise Open Network Computing RPC Tool as source code, while Netwise will be responsible for issuing the licences and supporting the product.
